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Unit Plan
Bullock Texas State History Museum

Bullock Museum: The Story of Texas: Ch. 5: A Growing Sense of Separateness [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th - 8th
A teacher guide designed to support a visit to the Bullock Museum, but can be used on its own using available resources. Includes information, discussion questions, activities, and worksheets. The module looks at Texas in the 1820s and...
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Website
Texas A&M University

Sons of Dewitt Colony Texas: Empresario System

For Students 9th - 10th
The empresario system in Texas provided a contract between settler and state. Find out the terms and responsibilities of each party in this site from Texas A&M University. Keep reading to find the duties of an epresario as outlined...
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Handout
Texas A&M University

Sons of De Witt Colony Texas: Manuel De Mier Y Teran

For Students 9th - 10th
A very long and detailed site from Texas A&M University with information on the military and political life of Manuel de Mier y Teran, "tragic friend and last hope for Mexican Texas."
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Primary
Yale University

Avalon Project: Address of the Honorable s.f. Austin, March 7, 1836

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the text of an address Austin made to the people of Louisville, Kentucky explaining the conflict between Texas and Mexico, and asking for support.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Harcourt: Biographies: Moses Austin 1761 1821

For Students 3rd - 8th
A good resource that provides the life history of Moses Austin, one of the founders of the lead industry in America. Before he died, he had a vision of establishing an American colony in Spanish controlled Texas.
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Article
University of Houston

University of Houston: Engines of Our Ingenuity: No. 954: Moses Austin's Lead

For Students 9th - 10th
An account of the beginning of the American lead industry started by Moses Austin, a Texas pioneer. This is a transcript of an accompanying radio broadcast.
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Article
Texas A&M University

Sons of De Witt Colony Texas: Austin's Colony

For Students 9th - 10th
A look into Austin's Colony, the first and largest Anglo-American settlement in Mexican Texas which was established by Stephen F. Austin in 1821.
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Handout
PBS

The West: Stephen Fuller Austin (1793 1836)

For Students 9th - 10th
PBS presents a biography on the life of Stephen Fuller Austin. Known as "The Father of Texas," Stephen F. Austin established the first Anglo-American colony in the Teas province of Mexico and saw it grow into an independent republic.
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Website
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Harcourt: Biographies: Stephen F. Austin 1793 1836

For Students 3rd - 8th
Often called "The Father of Texas", Stephen Austin settled the first American colony in Mexican controlled Texas and fought for Texas independence. Hyperlinks to additional information.
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Unit Plan
Texas Public Broadcasting

Texas Pbs: Texas Our Texas: Mexican Rule 1821 1835

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about how Mexico worked with the empresarios to bring settlers who would develop Texas for the Mexican government during the years of 1821 and 1835.
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Primary
Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Texas State Library and Archives Commission: Native American Relations in Texas: Stephen Austin to Head of Civil Affairs

For Students 9th - 10th
See a letter by Stephen F. Austin in which Austin reports on a group of Comanches and Tawakonis attacked a settlement. Includes images of the original letter and a summary of the document's contents.